Comments by "Daniel Daniels" (@danieldaniels7571) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1. I’m waiting for Amazon to buy a small country and relocate there to completely avoid taxes
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  2. Montreal and Houston both have similar underground path systems.
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  3. The people who don’t know it’s broken haven’t tried to walk on those streets.
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  4.  @Revelwoodie  nah, fam, I'd rather (and do) have a supermarket like Kroger walking distance instead of corner stores like you describe. The kind of stores you describe are simply too overpriced for everything for my budget in comparison.
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  5. Walking time doesn't bother me nearly as much as waiting time. I enjoy a 15 minute walk to a bus or rail stop, but waiting 20 minutes plus for the next bus or train, or any transfer location that has me sitting over ten minutes between routes sucks.
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  6.  @MrWarptime  I live in Phoenix. Your comment made me spit out my soda.
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  7. I lived in an actual small town in my youth. 7000 people. And it wasn’t walkable at all. I’m fact, it absolutely sucked until I was old enough to drive.
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  8. I was also thinking that. It seems very disingenuous to leave that information out.
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  9.  @talideon  I feel like stroads ruin access to bus and rail more than anything. The majority of the light rail line in Phoenix is literally in the middle of a huge stroad with stations where it intersects with another. This causes you to have to usually cross a 6+ lane stroad and a half to get from the train platform to literally anything including bus stops for a transfer.
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  10.  @lucoarriaza  corporate landlords suck. I've done my best to avoid them my whole adult life. Where I live now is low density, but very walkable by Phoenix standards as it's adjacent to a major shopping center, near three bus routes, and along a nice greenbelt bike route. The most important thing though is it's affordable and I'm renting from a private person and not a corporation. I'm only 2 1/2 miles away from light rail and can get there quickly by bus or e-scooter.
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  11.  @herlescraft  the purpose of the highways is to service the cities so that goods can be delivered to and from them.
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  12. Yep, this. Walkability in Texas is a fantasy. The success of this train line will depend on how useful it is for normal Texans who drive.
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  13.  @Z4KIUS  sounds like a really poorly routed route that uses that stop. Where I live there are many busses that pass the closest stop 5 minutes from my home without stopping labeled as "not in service" only to start their routes at other stops an additional half mile away in the direction I usually travel. To use that stop I have to often wait over 30 minutes for the bus that stops there to get me to those other stops that are an additional ten minute walk away. It's infuriating.
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  14. The taxi cabal would never allow it. They’re the reason it was not built to the airport.
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  15. Compared to downtown Phoenix, downtown LA is huge! It's somewhat less than a square mile.
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  16. How many of those are homeless in skid row?
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  17. Yes, it’s funny how this video completely focuses on Austin and neglects to mention that I-35 is a major shipping corridor from Mexico to Minneapolis.
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  18. Most of the people here commenting have never been to Houston and don’t have any concept of the massive size and low density.
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  19. @_____ that doesn't always work, and all too often ends up resulting in permanently vacant commercial space that would've been better used as residential.
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  20.  @historythyme  if those other freeways were built, the congestion on 1-35 wouldn’t be so bad.
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  21. That sounds really neat. Shame it failed.
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  22. Fact. Or they will rent a car.
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  23. 16th Street in downtown Denver
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  24. That was by far my favorite thing about Montreal when I visited 17 years ago.
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  25. Is that the street where the ladyboys hang out?
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  26.  @thomasaly7624  thankfully noise canceling headphones are a thing
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  27.  @valleyofiron125  wow. What an intense failure on multiple levels. It's a shame that after spending so much to build the streetcar Seattle won't pay enough for drivers to want those jobs.
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  28.  @TheLIRRFrenchie...  when I lived in Tempe I was a quarter mile away from a freight rail. After I moved I really missed the sound of the trains at night.
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  29. If I was to do that where I live, someone would steal my bike while I was on the train.
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  30.  @julm7744  how do you know that's the reason?
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  31. Which is exactly why it needs expanded over the objections of the complaining NIMBYs in Austin.
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  32.  @pattyeverett2826  That could actually be a perfect solution, as long as the entire resulting route was redesignated as I-35. Since the toll road is operated by a private company it doesn’t seem to be looked at as an option, though.
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  33. Bannicus it’s not rocket science to figure out that a large portion of California’s homeless migrated there after becoming homeless elsewhere for the climate.
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  34.  @lahicks9773  I think Elon Musk beat them to it.
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  35.  Mastodon1976  I don’t find it all that far fetched. Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s net worth, resources, and economy dwarf the economies and total wealth of several small third world countries. And it wouldn’t have to be a Crimea-esque overthrow like so much of this thread has been debating. For the right amount, most governments can be bought. Bezos has the wealth and global business to provide his newly acquired Amazon Basics Government with first world resources, food, and the civilian population with the promise of jobs, food, and a comfortable livelihood. I would imagine most citizens of a small struggling impoverished country would welcome that.
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  36.  Mastodon1976  not necessarily. As long as the subcontracted as needed to make sure all orders get delivered, maintained all web services, and the website and apps remained unchanged. I bet the average customer wouldn’t even notice the difference. And the government can’t just randomly hit them with a tax penalty if they don’t do anything to incur one. I’m not aware of a tax for moving operation to another country; people and companies do it all the time.
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  37.  @MasterMalrubius  Absolutely no one has the authority to impose a worldwide tax rate of any kind.
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  38.  @xandercruz900  😂
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  39. redesignating that toll road as I-35 is the no-brainer solution that no one seems to be looking at. Because this really isn’t about Austin, it’s about the fact that I-35 is a major international trucking corridor.
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  40. So get a car. Problem solved.
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  41. You rent a car on Turo.
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  42. That’s completely by design. You’re not supposed to be walking or running. You’re supposed to be seated at a machine or table gambling, at a table eating, in a seat at a show, or back in your room. You’re supposed to spend money on a taxi to go between different casinos, but when you’re in one you’re not supposed to leave.
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  43. This may come as a shock to you, but most people I know prefer to live in and be surrounded by low density development.
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  44. People drive on the strip because they want to drive on the strip. For those who don’t, I-15 runs right along side it.
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  45. BonaparteBardithion true. Then add in other options like electric bikes, skateboards, electric scooters, roller blades...
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  46. What this video neglects to mention and you seem oblivious to is that most of the traffic on I-35 has nothing to do with Austin because it is a major international shipping route.
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  47.  @barvdw  Texas already has walkable areas. They’re called malls. And strip malls. You walk to them from your car in the parking lot.
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  48.  @andrewvenor8035  nah... It's because he was raise upper middle-class in Prescott, Arizona, and isn't one to walk anywhere or use any public transit.
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  49. Pancoleon same thing in the States, at least Arizona. Often in those rare instances where there is a painted bike lane it is also a car parking lane which not only completely defeats the purpose of having a bike lane, but you also have to watch out for people who open their car doors without looking for bikes first. And don’t get me started on “sharrows”. Painting a bicycle in the middle of a car traffic lane doesn’t do shit to change the behavior of motorists.
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  50. And it doesn't rhyme with Vaseline
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